The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is demanding unfettered access across eastern Ukraine after one of its monitoring missions there was threatened at gunpoint by Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

In a TV interview, U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said that, if elected, he would consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. That stance would be a reversal of the Obama administration’s refusal to recognize the 2014 occupation and annexation of Crimea. RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service...

Ukrainian government forces said they repulsed an attack by Russian-backed separatists around the town of Mariinka, near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers, seen in this video on the evening of July 30, responded to the attack with machine-gun fire and grenades. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free...

The Republican candidate for U.S. president, Donald Trump, has suggested that the United States should accept Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula if it would lead to better relations with Moscow and stronger cooperation in fighting Islamic State (IS) militants. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...